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Why this Herald building collapse story is another scare, like Grenfell, extremely unlikely to happen here because of more rigorous standards

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA In the Herald, today above, from their master of disasters, Martin Williams, more nonsense. To be fair, he has to cover a lot of bases, including health scares, crime surges and ferry fiascos. What are these concrete panels he would have us panic over? From Grok AI (Powerfully helpful as long as you ask the right questions and can check the answers make sense): Large Panel System (LPS) failures in … Continue reading Why this Herald building collapse story is another scare, like Grenfell, extremely unlikely to happen here because of more rigorous standards

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Why are radioactivity in food safety standards in Japan up to 100 times more protective of consumers than they are in the UK?

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In the National, today, form the above SNP MP, Allan Dorans and extended and well-researched piece on the presence of radioactivity in seafood and larger mammals on the Ayrshire coast, resulting from leaks in the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plan in Cumbria, just down the coast and subject to tidal flows. Here’s the chunk that most made me think: In 2016, researchers at Glasgow University reported ‘enhanced’ radioactivity levels, in shellfish catches, at a number of coastal locations in Cumbria, near the Sellafield plant, and on the west coast of Scotland, including the village of Maidens, in my Ayrshire constituency.[i] The … Continue reading Why are radioactivity in food safety standards in Japan up to 100 times more protective of consumers than they are in the UK?